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Thursday, July 3, 2025

Former state university employee Colombo paid in $379K to pension fund, could collect $8.77M in retirement

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Former state university employee John Colombo, who retired in June 2016, saved $378,984 toward a pension over 29 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Colombo would collect as much as $8.77 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Colombo received $184,316 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Colombo will have already received $569,701 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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